02/17/2026
So often, it’s not the emotion that overwhelms us - it’s the narrative we wrap around it.
The mind is brilliant at spinning tales:
Why does this always happen to me?
What did they mean by that?
How is this going to turn out?
And before we know it, a single feeling becomes a full-blown saga.
But what if, instead, we simply felt the feeling?
In meditation, we practice exactly that. We sit. We breathe. A wave of sadness arises, and instead of building a courtroom case around it, we soften, and allow. We notice where it lives in the body - in a heavy chest, or clenched jaw. We let it move.
Feelings are energy in motion, while the stories we tell ourselves become a glue.
When we drop the story, we stop reinforcing old patterns. We stop hardening around the situations in our lives. We stop turning temporary weather into permanent climate.
You don’t have to suppress your emotions, or try to fix or justify them. You just need to feel them, and drop the story around them.
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